Ezekiel 34
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A Prophecy Against Israel’s Shepherds
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2#Jer 23:1; Ps 78:71–72Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? 3#Zec 11:16; 11:5You eat the fat and clothe yourself with the wool; you kill those who are fed without feeding the flock. 4#Ex 1:13–14; Eze 34:16The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost. But with force and with cruelty you have subjugated them. 5#Mt 9:36; 1Ki 22:17They were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became meat to all the beasts of the field and were scattered. 6#Ps 142:4; 1Pe 2:25My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill. Indeed, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and no one searched or sought after them.
7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8As I live, says the Lord God, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock even became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock; but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock, 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 10#Jer 21:13; Eze 13:8Thus says the Lord God: I am against the shepherds. And I will require My flock from their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. Nor shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore, for I will deliver My flock from their mouth so that they may not be meat for them.
The True Shepherd
11#Lk 19:10For thus says the Lord God: I, even I, will search for My sheep and seek them out. 12#Eze 30:3; Jer 13:16As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in a cloudy and dark day. 13#Eze 11:17I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14#Jn 10:9; Jer 31:12–14I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel their grazing ground shall be. There they shall lie on good grazing ground, and in a rich pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15I will feed My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God. 16#Isa 10:16; 49:26I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment.
17#Mt 25:32–33; Eze 34:20–22As for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord God: I will judge between sheep and cattle, between the rams and the male goats. 18#Nu 16:9; 16:13Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet? 19And as for My flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
20Therefore thus says the Lord God to them: I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and between the lean sheep. 21#Dt 33:17; Lk 13:14–16Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns until you have scattered them abroad, 22#Ps 72:12–14; Jer 23:2–3therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between one sheep and another. 23#Isa 40:11; Jn 10:11I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My servant David. He shall feed them himself and be their shepherd. 24#Eze 36:28; 37:27I the Lord will be their God, and My servant David shall be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.
25#Isa 11:6–9; Lev 26:6I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the wild beasts to cease from the land so that they dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26#Ge 12:2; Isa 44:3I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing. And I will cause the showers to come down in their season. They shall be showers of blessing. 27#Jer 30:8; Lev 26:13The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the ground shall yield its increase, and they shall be safe in their land. Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those who enslaved them. 28#Jer 30:10; Eze 34:25They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land devour them. But they shall dwell safely and no one shall make them afraid. 29#Eze 36:29; Isa 4:2I will raise up for them a planting place of renown, and no more shall they be consumed with hunger in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations anymore. 30#Ps 46:7; 46:11Thus shall they know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, says the Lord God. 31#Ps 100:3; 78:52As for you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God.
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